22 Contributions to Western Botany. [ZOE 
[Extract from Zor, Vol. IV, No. 1, April, 1893.] 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY. No. 4. 
; BY MARCUS E. JONES. 
Astragalus candidissimus (Benth.) Wat. Probably from a 
woody root if not shrubby, rather tall, a foot or two high at least; 
stems flexuous; peduncles one and one-half times longer than 
the leaf, rather stout; stipules minute. Mr. Brandegee’s speci- 
mens from Magdalena Island have about eight pairs of leaflets, 
obovate-cuneate, rounded or emarginate at apex, scarcely petiolu- 
late, appressed silvery silky, five lines or less long; whole leaf 
three inches long; petiole an inch or less long; flowers, in dense 
spikes which are two inches long, five lines long, almost sessile, 
minute bract twice as long as pedicel; calyx black-hairy, two 
lines long, cleft deeper on the upper side, teeth short, triangular, 
one-half the length of the campanulate tube; pods sessile, 
